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Fishy business

Drug cartels are running wild on the Texas-Mexico border, but Kiwi journalist Hamish McKenzie asks whether the story of a recent disappearance is too good to be true?

By Hamish McKenzie In Commentary

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29th January, 2011
There's a murder mystery in the US border town of Zapata and everyone at its Longhorn Bar has a theory about what happened. Several drinkers are suspicious of the story the dead man's wife told. "She's a lying bitch!" calls out a man in a cowboy hat sitting at a table behind us, his hands cupped over his mouth in faux ­amplification. The folks at the Longhorn this Tuesday night seem to agree the shooting on nearby Falcon Lake last September can be explained by one of three scenarios: the wife had him knocked off so she could claim the insurance money; it was all faked so the husband ...

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